Chapter 192: A lifesaver

In the face of the constant stabbing spears, the bloodied war elephants wailed and kept retreating, the javelins pierced in their bodies caused severe pain, and the enemy troops in front of them with long soldiers in hand kept creating new pain. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The rider can no longer control these once obedient mounts, and even some people have been shot by the Zhou army, turned into hedgehogs and fell to the ground, and the infantry following behind the war elephants have been cut down by the Zhou army, like birds and beasts.

The archers in the small building on the back of the elephant suffered heavy casualties in the confrontation with the Zhou army, and their armor was obviously not as hard as these Zhou archers, and the opponent could still fight with several arrows in his body, while the slang soldiers with arrows had lost their combat effectiveness.

Chen Fozhi is an exception, as the head of the Chen family in Luzhou, he is of course wearing heavy armor, so he can prevent the flow of arrows and save his life without worry, but even so, Chen Fozhi is anxious, his war elephant herd is on the verge of collapse, and the other party has not even used the big crossbow.

The lone Zhou army used the archers as bait to lure him to command the war elephant to attack, and as a result, these archers carried pointed bamboos with them and laid traps for him to drill.

The valuable war elephants were blocked by this worthless bamboo array, and those crazy soldiers actually dared to rush up on foot and fight with the war elephants, and the other party just used throwing spears to easily hurt the war elephants.

Before the battle, Chen Fozhi thought that what he had to watch out for was the Zhou army's crossbow, but just now, he didn't think that the Zhou army in front of him had a way to cause serious injuries to the war elephants without a crossbow, and as a result, he miscalculated.

In other words, the Zhou army came prepared.

If I had known that, I shouldn't have been...

There is no regret in the world to take the medicine, seeing that there are already war elephants turning around and running away, Chen Fozhi was anxious, and ordered the trumpeter to blow the trumpet in a hoarse voice: "Let them control the war elephants!" Reinforcements are coming! ”

It's not Chen Fozhi talking nonsense, there are indeed reinforcements approaching them, it is the cavalry of the official army in the east, and the slang cavalry in the west, Chen Fozhi is like a drowning man, grabbing a life-saving straw.

As long as the reinforcements relieve the war elephants, then they still have a chance to turn the tables!

Chen Fozhi thought so, and Wang Jin, who rushed to reinforce him, also thought so, he wanted to attack the Zhou infantry besieging the war elephants from the back, but after bypassing the Zhou army's formation, he found that those infantry were covered by pikemen.

And the pikemen were covered by archers, although these soldiers were on the west side of the phalanx, but thinking back to the confrontation just now, Wang Ying felt that he could not take advantage, and when he hesitated, a confrontation broke out not far in front of him.

The slender cavalry with short horses bravely faced the tall and tall cavalry of the Zhou army, and they wanted to prevent the other party from attacking their war elephants, because the war elephants were the biggest reliance of the official army to defeat the Zhou army, so even if they knew that their skills were inferior to others, they were still ordered to attack.

A qualified cavalryman needs several years to practice horsemanship, riding archery, and horse lance, and a qualified war horse must not only ensure the forage to eat every day, but also have a wide grass to run and stretch his limbs.

Not to mention horse armor, even the armor worn by the cavalry, it is already good to have crotch armor, the bow and arrow in the hand are ordinary arrows, and the horse lance is basically not, and all the spears are used.

Therefore, courage alone does not bring victory, the first round of hedging cavalry shooting, the slang soldiers were suppressed, and the lance and spear hedge were even more collapsed at the touch of a button, and the slang cavalry formation was quickly torn apart.

Like a river embankment, after days of flooding, it leaked everywhere, and suddenly cracked, and the slang cavalry only resisted for a moment before being pierced by the cavalry of the Zhou army, and the hope they brought to their own elephant army was short-lived.

Some of the cavalry of the Zhou army pursued and killed the scattered and fleeing cavalry, while the other part came towards the cavalry of the Chen army under Wang Yuan, and seeing that he was alone, Wang Ying could only turn his horse's head and retreat to the east.

The appearance of reinforcements brought hope to Chen Fozhi, but then this hope disappeared like dew in the sun, and his elephant army was isolated, without infantry cover, and in front of him were all enemies stabbing with spears.

Some of the cavalry of the Zhou army chasing Wang Ying withdrew, and all of them came towards the war elephant, which was the comeback Zhou Faming, and his subordinates each carried a spear to give the war elephant the final blow.

The distance of the spear thrown by the infantry is about 30 to 40 paces, while the distance of the cavalry is farther, and the speed brought by the horse makes the spear more lethal.

Zhou Faming's cavalry only made the war elephants completely collapse after the first round of throwing, turned the direction and ran wildly, Chen Fozhi was sitting in the small building and was in despair, but suddenly found that the direction of the war elephants fled was actually the Zhou army in the north.

He was like a man about to drown grasping a life-saving straw, and he almost cried with joy: Could it be... Could it be that God bless our army to turn defeat into victory?!!

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"Yo, the war elephants are actually rushing towards our army!"

Yu Wenwen, who was sitting in the Chinese army, touched his small beard under his chin and said in surprise, Cui Da on the side looked at the war elephant in front of him, and couldn't help but worry, this battle was very well prepared before the battle, and as soon as the war started, he completely grasped the initiative, it should have been a perfect victory, but the result...

"King, have you made arrangements to stop these out-of-control war elephants from attacking our army's array?"

"Uh, no."

Yu Wenwen's answer surprised Cui Da, he got along with Yu Wenwen for several months, and found that this person was a little suspicious on weekdays, always guarding against someone sneak attack, and the same was true for the marching formation.

Therefore, Cui Da thought that Yu Wenwen must have a hand left today to prevent the enemy war elephants from attacking the formation after getting out of control, but it turned out that he didn't!

Looking ahead, the war elephant was less than four hundred steps away from his side, Cui Da was a little nervous, he heard that once the war elephant went crazy, no one could stop him from running, but then looked at the soldiers in front of him who had finished the formation, and his heart settled down again.

With so many people in the way, what is there to be afraid of.

"There are so many people in the way, what's there to be afraid of, right Cui Changshi?"

"Ah, Xia Guan didn't think so."

Cui Da smiled dryly, and he didn't want to talk to Yuwenwen anymore, he really couldn't figure out how King Qi raised this kind of bastard son, with a poisonous mouth, thick skin, and crooked reasoning. I can't beat it.

"On the battlefield, anything can happen, and it is simply unrealistic to take all variables into account before the war." Yuwen Wen talked eloquently, but Cui Da only felt that there must be a trap in the other party's words, so he didn't talk to him.

Although the war elephants rushed towards their own array, which was something that was not expected before the battle, this sudden variable made Yuwen Wen very interested, so he talked more:

"The fighter plane on the battlefield is fleeting, how to adapt to the situation, the ancient famous generals have a lot of experience, Yue Wumu said well, 'the use of wonder, save one heart'."

Cui Da was a little puzzled when he heard this, although he didn't dare to say that he was proficient in the art of war, but many famous generals in history had heard of it, so he couldn't understand the name of a person that Yuwen Wen just said: "King, I don't know who Yue Wumu is?" ”

"Ahh

Yuwen Wen was shocked that he was speechless, and immediately made up his mind to divert the attention of the other party, he asked Zhang Dingfa on the side to prepare the horse, and made it look like he was going to personally lead the troops to meet the war elephant, which frightened Cui Da and shouted, "The king must not be in danger!" ”

"Oh, now it's Manager Yang who is in charge of commanding the battle, so why are you in a hurry!"

Yu Wenwen suddenly realized, turned back to sit back on the Hu bed, and began to talk about a new topic: "Cui Changshi, are you interested in betting?" ”

"King, I don't know what to bet on?"

"How about betting on what means Manager Yang will use to drive these war elephants away?"